Scholz-Sicinski, "Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study"

1) The analysis was performed using Stata version 12.1, protected WLS 12.27 release data, and restricted auxilary data.  Due to the sensitive nature of some of these data, they cannot be released to the public for unrestricted use.  To obtain access please contact the WLS at wls@ssc.wisc.edu.

2) Description of replication files

07845-0001-Data.dta
	Data from ICPSR Study No. 7845 	

abcode.ado
	Constructs the key variable that is used to merge the ICPSR Study No. 7845 data

b1x2.ado
b1x2.hlp
	The command was written by Jonah B. Gelbach and is based on his paper, "When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, And How Much?", University of Arizona Department of Economics Working Paper #09-07. This paper is currently available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1425737

clubnames.do
	Labels high school activity variables
	
Scholz-Sicinski data prep.do
	Constructs analysis variables from WLS data.  If run for the first time, RemakeData scalar should be set to 1 at the top of the file.  The code expects the WLS data file to be in the same directory and named wls_priv_12_27.dta
	
Scholz-Sicinski DOT data prep.do
	Constructs analysis variables from ICPSR Study No. 7845 data.  Should be run prior to running the main code.

Scholz-Sicinski main code.do
Scholz-Sicinski main code.log
	Code generating the main results in the paper.
	
Scholz-Sicinski pooled.do
	Code analyzing data with the 1975 wave and 1992 wave pooled together.
	
Scholz-Sicinski random coder simulation.do
	Performs a simulation of having just one coder.
	
Scholz-Sicinski reverse simulation.do
	Performs a simulation of the effects of attenuation bias.
	
standardized-beauty.dta
	Standardized attractiveness data that is merged in with the publicly available WLS dataset.
	
standardized-beauty-by-coder-gender.dta
	Standardized attractiveness data that is merged in with the publicly available WLS dataset.
	
schoolid.dta
	School identifier data that is merged in with the publicly available WLS dataset.

Tables/
	Directory needed for the code to run without errors.
	
wls2stata.ado
wls2stata.hlp
	Stata utility for recoding missing codes to missing values
	
